Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-12
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NEWS NUGGETS.
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Notice the Output.
Mrs. Rev. Wallace Shelton, of Gin
cinnati, died last week.
Frederick Z. McGhee, Esq, colored,
of Chicago, is writing novel.
Mr.. G. G. stapp, of Indianapolis, Ind,
has been appointed Assistant Assessor.
The colored editors of Alabama, will
hold Press Convention, May 9Th. 1887.
Mr.. Frank Rector, colored. is sales-
man in a carpet house in Middleton,
Ohio.
/ With the last issue the St. Joseph
4 (Mo.) Mirror began the second year of
| its existence.
| Charleston, s. c., has a church built
by colored people that cost seventy
thousand dollars.
Acolored cabin boy saved five lives
in the recent disaster on the Tombigbee
river in Alabama
Messrs. George w. Cooper and Geo.
Walker, colored, have opened real
estate office in st. Joseph, Mo.
A white girl in Kingston, Ont, has
brought suit for 81 900 damage for breach
OF promise against a colored waiter.
| The Senate has confined the nomi-
nation of James M. Trotter, as Recorder
| of Deeds in the District of Columbia.
Mr.. ]. B. Askins, of New Orleans has
| been appointed to position in the In
terror Department at Washington, D. C.
| Mr.. William Robinson, colore,l, of
Birmingham, Ala, refused $4,000 for
his house and lot in that city last week.
Mr.. S. T. Watkins, colored, of Rock
Island. Ill, had an income of $50, 451 IS
from his wood and coal business in 1886.
Selma and Mobile, Ala, boast of
colored street car drivers, and the boss
of the stables at Mobile is acolored man.
Mrs. Anna Hayter, colored, of Hanil-
ton. Ohio, has recently fallen heir to
$40, 900, by the death of white relatives
in Tennessee.
The NEGRO American of Birming-
ham, Ala, has been enlarged to an eight
column folio, and is very much improved
in appearance.
Rev. James Poindexter, colored, of
Columbus, Ohio, has been appointed by
the governor, director of the State
Forestry Bureau.
It is reported that Gen. Rosecrans,
Register of the Treasury will resign
shortly and that Matthews will be ap-
pointed in his stead.
Mr.. Joseph Houser, colored, of Cairo,
ILL.,, has been appointed to a 81 200 clerk
chip in the Office of Recorder of Deeds,
of Washington. D. G.
Mr.. G. Winter Wood, colored, has
been rendered a position as clerk in the
mammoth retail dry goods establish
ment of Partridge & Co., Chicago, III.
For the first time in the history of
Bridgeton, N. j., colored man has
been nominated for constable. His
name is Issac Saxton.
Frank Hart, the colored pedestrian,
came out second in the recent walking
match in Philadelphia and received
81 900 as his share of the receipts.
Miss Helen D. Handy, daughter of
Rey. James A. Handy, has been ap-
pointed to the position of copyist in the
Office of the Recorder of Deeds, at
| Washington.
Mr.. Wiltshire Payne who was refused
admittance to the Young Mems Insti-
tute, of New York, on account of his
color, short white ago, has been ad-
mitted to the Christian Association.
Mr.. E. E. Cooper, editor of the In
dianapolis World, who was charged
with robbing the mails, because he
was colored,5h-d his final trial in
Louisville, KY, recently and was &C
quilted.
Mr.. John Thomas, wealthy colored
farmer near Vincennes, Ind, met with
i a severe loss last Saturday morning, his
barn was struck by lightning and was
totally destroyed, with five horses a
large quantity of wheat, corn and oats.
i Mrs. Evaline Howard, colored, of Bel
i videre, N. j., a soldiers widow, has re-
ceived check from the United States
:, Government for $500, back pay and
pension for her dead husband. who
served during the war in Pennsylvania
/ regiment and died of his wounds.
=. Reunno Caulker, full-blooded, let
: black African Prince, who recently
married Ella shafer, cnlored girl of
t Dayton, o., has sailed for the west coast
Of Africa. He has been six years in this
country, has learned the trade of print
ing, and entered the ministry, and goes
out as missionary under the auspices
], OF the United Brethren Church. His
| father is King of Sherbio, a country
near Sierra Leone about twice as large
!, as the State Of Minnesota.
Reds and Blues.